E&P has a piece on reporters who cover Iraq:
After the latest round of blaming the media for distorted coverage in Iraq, which emerged this week from top Bush administraton officials, war reporters and editors strongly defended their coverage this weekend in a variety of venues, as violence in the country reached new levels.Many good insights from the reporters. I was struck by this:
Appearing on NBC, its Baghdad correspondent Richard Engel said, “Most Iraqis I speak to say, ‘Actually most reporters get it wrong--it’s the situation on the ground is actually worse than the images we project on television.’"The only Iraq strategy from the Bush team is a "blame the media" strategy. You know they sat around, polled, strategized and conspired to come up with that plan. Too bad they didn't put as much time in to figuring out what to do on the ground in Iraq.
He added: “We’ll see more and more reports coming out by the media explaining how they are covering the war and I think the Bush administration overplayed their hand in trying to blame their problems on the media.”
